Julia Bricklin and Carolyn Hays on A Novel Idea (Aired: November 5, 2023)

A Novel Idea

Award winning writer and historian Julia Bricklin joins Suzanne Lang to talk about her most recent book Red Sapphire: The Woman Who Beat the Blacklist, the story of Hannah Weinstein, a left leaning activist who fled to Europe during the McCarthy era, and established Sapphire Films. With little background, she began producing successful television shows, all the while surreptitiously employing blacklisted American writers to provide the scripts.

Also featured is the book A Girlhood: Letter to my Transgender Daughter and its author Carolyn Hays in conversation with Suzanne. Carolyn is an award winning author, but chose to publish this book under a pen name to protect her family; her daughter, assigned male at birth, asserted that she was a girl at the age of three and has been living that way ever since.

It’s A Novel Idea, Sunday, November 5^th at 10am PT. Broadcasting at 104.9 in Sonoma County, streaming and podcasting at krcb.org.